[Sexual activity, contraception and unwanted pregnancy at puberty and adolescence]

The sexual activity during the pubertal-adolescent age and the closely connected with it questions about psychological consequences, extramarital conceptions, deliveries and abortions is a problem with more and more increasing significance in the world. The present study includes an inquiry on 468 girls and boys at the age of 17-18 years, and 120 girls at the age of 14 to 17 years with interrupted pregnancy 214 girls with interrupted pregnancy at the age of 13 to 17 years and 120 girls at the age of 14 to 17 years, who delivered extramaritally at the Higher Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It is established that 48.6% of girls have sexual life, but 92.1% of girls, aged 17-18 years, have sexual life. The question was studied when, why and with whom the first sexual contact was made. The questions about contraception, sexual education, abortions, deliveries and the fate of the newborn are discussed as well. Inferences for prophylactic work among the coming generation are made.